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Le trop grand éloignement des parties entre elles qui leur fait à toutes excéder leur portée, oblige souvent d'en diviser plusieurs en deux; c'est ainsi qu'on divise les basses en basses-contres, basse-tailles, les tailles en hautes tailles & concordans, les dessus en premiers & seconds; mais dans tout cela on n'apperçoit rien de fixe, rien de déterminé par les regles.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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Do not oppress your people and do not burden them with tolls or tailles, except under very great necessity.
Archive 2008-04-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Do not oppress your people and do not burden them with tolls or tailles, except under very great necessity.
St Louis IX, letter to his Son de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Design graphique old school en L. 5 tailles de typo, minimal. analyse détaillée du design de Facebook.
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Do not oppress your people and do not burden them with tolls or tailles, except under very great necessity.
Archive 2007-10-21 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Do not oppress your people and do not burden them with tolls or tailles, except under very great necessity.
Letter of King St Louis IX to his son Philip de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Design graphique old school en L. 5 tailles de typo, minimal. analyse détaillée du design de Facebook.
BarCamp Lausanne: Facebook (Raphaël Briner) — Climb to the Stars 2007
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Ils depassent jamais les tailles S dans leur collec 'de fringue.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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There were two _tailles_: _la taille seigneuriale_, a contribution paid by serfs to their lord; and _la taille royale_, paid by the third estate to the King.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 Anatole France 1884
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Her husband, she said, had a morsel of land, one cow, and a poor little horse, yet he had to pay forty-two pounds of wheat and three chickens to one Seigneur, and one hundred and sixty pounds of oats, one chicken, and one franc to another, besides very heavy tailles and other taxes; and they had seven children.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880
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